Why Supplements?
Importance of Proper Digestion
Friday, August 1st, 2008
It has been observed that health is the result of what the dog assimilates, not what it
necessarily eats. Canine accept lots of food into their bodies, but only that which has
been properly assimilated can be utilized for rebuilding and repairing cells and malfunction
areas.
This is an old and true axiom. They should thoroughly chew the solid foods, mixing saliva
with them until the food becomes a liquid, then they should drink it. The saliva
thoroughly mixed with the foods is the key that opens up the doors of digestion. Without
mixing saliva with the food, the balances of the digestive juices are not activated for
good assimilation. By “inhaling”, gulping, or bolting the food down without
properly mixing saliva with it, your dog only gets eight to ten percent of its value. If
your dog thoroughly chewed it’s food, the value would change this to forty or
forty-five percent. The remaining balance is generally cellulose or indigestible
fiber.
I have yet to witness a dog that took time to chew it’s solid food or swish the
liquids it consumes. How do you make up for these shortcomings? Simply add NATURE'S FARMACY
DIGESTIVE ENHANCER to their diet on a daily basis.
By adding this one supplement, you can increase the assimilation and utilization four
to six fold. You not only receive far better health for your dog, but also save money.
Dog food (Raw food or dry kibble) is one of your largest canine expenditures, and if
you can get four to six times better assimilation, this promises superior health and a
happier life. With less of the food you have been used to feeding, your dog can receive
much more power and energy.
Pasty cereal grains such as corn, wheat, and barley are decidedly constipating in their
influence, because of their pasty consistency and the little chewing, which they receive.
New bread, hot biscuits, “noodles,”
and doughy foods of all sorts are likewise objectionable. If the above principles
are not applied, constipation and/or indigestion can result. Premature old age and
death, miseries originate from canine constipation more than from any other bodily
disorder. Constipation is not in itself a disease, but is a symptom, the cause of which may
be disease or simply neglect.
Indigestion is poor assimilation or difficulty in processing food. The use of aluminum-based digestive tablets sold on the market give only temporary relief and aluminum poisoning is a side effect or after-effect. However, by feeding a canine nutritiously and supplementing your dog’s diet with a good quality stabilized probiotic such as DIGESTIVE ENHANCER, you can set your dogs on a much healthier path.
Ultrasonic and X-ray technological research shows that in eight to fourteen hours from the beginning of a meal the process of digestion has been completed in dogs consuming dry kibble. Interestingly, it only takes two to four hours for a raw diet for complete digestion. At this time and point in digestion (both instances), the digested food has been absorbed, and the unusable residue has been pushed half way through the colon. In eight hours, the food has traveled more than twenty-five feet, with only two and a half feet to go.
Optimally, when the work of digestion is finished and the useful part of the food has been
absorbed, there remains nothing to be done but to dispose
of the indigestible and useless residue by pushing it along two or three feet
further.
A healthy canine should have a minimum of two to three bowel movements a day. Too often,
the owner trains the animal to just have one bowel movement per day. I would prefer at least
three times a day or after each meal. When toxic waste matter is left to stagnate in the lower bowel tract, the system becomes polluted with poisonous gases, which congest and
irritate the surrounding organs, causing adhesions and other ailments.
The canine putrefaction is the source of the foul odor and gases that originate in the
colon. These foul smells, which are not only most offensive to the sense of smell, are also
highly poisonous. They may give rise to nausea, loss of appetite, foul tongue, bad
“doggie” breath, itchy skin, headache, and a host of other grave canine
disorders.
DIGESTIVE ENHANCER to the rescue! Used daily it increases assimilation and
does not allow gases to form.